CUNY Law will have a major presence at the 2010 Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) Conference on “Vulnerable Populations and Economic Realities: an Interdisciplinary Approach to Law Teaching.”

Golden Gate University School of Law and SALT will co-sponsor the two-day teaching conference, which will examine the latest theories and data collected by social scientists on poverty so that this new information can be effectively incorporated into legal education across the curriculum. CUNY Law Professor Julie Goldscheid will speak on “Introducing Social Justice into the First Year Curriculum.” Professor Sarah Valentine will discuss “Integrating Social Justice into Legal Research” and Professor Carmen Huertas-Noble will participate on the “Teaching Legal Support for Low-Wage Workers’ Movements” panel. CUNY Law’s Haywood Burns Chair in Civil Rights Dean Spade will speak on the “Gender and Sexuality as Vectors of Distribution: Clinical and Non-Clinical Pedagogy” panel.

Community Legal Resource Network (CLRN) Director Fred Rooney is the featured speaker at the Spring 2009 Workshop of the National Institute for Teaching Ethics & Professionalism. While in Atlanta for the conference, Rooney will also meet with members of the Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism at the State Bar and will speak to students at Georgia State University’s School of Law on the Fundamentals of Law Practice. Rooney was recently awarded the Father Robert Drinan Award from the AALS’s Section on Pro Bono and Public Service Opportunities and the 2010 Louis M. Brown Award for Legal Access by the ABA Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services.